Category: Reviews
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The Unsung: Mr. Jackson, Double Indemnity (1944)
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Read more: The Unsung: Mr. Jackson, Double Indemnity (1944)In a world gone rotten – murder, honeysuckle, and anklets that lead to oblivion – there is Mr. Jackson. While everyone else is doing their level best to get out of this life a little more than they put in, Mr. Jackson, by all appearances, is the only one devoted to sheer pleasure.
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The Best Film Ever Made About…
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Read more: The Best Film Ever Made About…Everything a married couple experiences during the average evening: lies, recriminations, pettiness, alcohol abuse, adultery, and…
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“My Year in Movies – 2024 Edition” – Trending down.
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Read more: “My Year in Movies – 2024 Edition” – Trending down.A favorite pastime of film industry journalists is predicting the demise of cinema. I’ve written several times about how much hooey that was all the way back in 2013, again in 2017, and again in 2019.
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The Wild Geese (1978)
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Read more: The Wild Geese (1978)Like Kelly’s Heroes, The Eagle Has Landed and Von Ryan’s Express, The Wild Geese is a fun men-on-a-mission pic ideal for Sunday afternoons.
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The Room (2003)
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Read more: The Room (2003)My friend Casey presented me with a challenge. It was a movie that, amazingly, I’d never heard of. A little film called THE ROOM. Casey bought the movie and had it shipped to my house, which is a nice gesture from a friend.
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Troll 2 (1990)
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Read more: Troll 2 (1990)A Sheriff named Freak, orchestrates the kidnapping of unsuspecting tourists, force-feeds them green slime, and turns them into trees, all so the little buggers can devour the plant people in a slobber-filled orgy
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The ABC’s of Obesity in America
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Read more: The ABC’s of Obesity in AmericaI recently visited the magnificent Aquarium in Gatlinburg, Tennessee and was surprised to see that the Aquarium contained hundreds and hundreds of whales. Unfortunately, these mammals were human beings looking at the pretty fish.
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The 20 Most Ruthless Movie Performances of All Time
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Read more: The 20 Most Ruthless Movie Performances of All TimeThe Dark Gospel According To Matt Cale
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A Christmas Carol (1951)
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Read more: A Christmas Carol (1951)A Christmas Carol (1951) There are over a dozen renditions of the Dickens classic, A Christmas Carol, or Scrooge, and I have reviewed several of them here at Ruthless. There is one omission, A Christmas Carol (1951) and this particular edition may very well be the best of the best, when all things are considered.…
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A Christmas Story
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Read more: A Christmas StoryAs much as I love the Scrooge classics, I must grudgingly admit that A Christmas Story is the greatest Christmas movie ever made.